EASY Contract Comfort ™ solution wins EASY its 16th DM Award in 12 years at the premier annual event for the UK content management community

Bury St Edmunds UK, November 27th, 2018 – EASY SOFTWARE UK, Europe’s leading supplier of document management solutions, has won ‘Software Product of the Year’ at the annual Document Manager Awards for its EASY Contract Comfort ™ solution. It was also named runner-up in the ‘Accounts Payable/Invoicing Product of the Year’ and ‘Records Management Product of the Year’ categories.

The firm, which has now won 16 DM Awards during the event’s twelve-year history, was crowned winner at a black-tie reception on November 22nd at the Radisson Blu Edwardian Bloomsbury Street in London’s Bloomsbury. The DM Awards are given based on outstanding contributions to the document management industry.

Andy Boulton, CEO at EASY, commented:

“We’re delighted to continue our winning streak at the Document Manager Awards, and we’d like to thank everyone who voted for us as well as our loyal customers. This award demonstrates that EASY Contract Comfort is a category leader in its field when it comes to flexible, comprehensive contract management solutions.”

The Software Product of the Year award joins previous DM Award category wins, including ‘Email Product of the Year’ (three times), ‘Channel Partner of The Year’, ‘Enterprise CMS Product’, ‘Workflow/BPM Product of the Year’, ‘Compliance Product of the Year’, ‘Invoicing Product of The Year’ and ‘Marketing Team of the Year’.

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Bury St Edmunds, UK – November 8, 2018 – EASY SOFTWARE UK, Europe’s foremost supplier of document management solutions, is delighted to announce the availability of a special new whitepaper on achieving best practice in securing digital HR success.

The guidance offers practical recommendations for HR leaders to improve their digital capabilities, and offers multiple real-world HR case studies that demonstrate how working with accurate workplace and staff information in a digital way is the best way of maintaining organisational control, improving efficiency and meeting compliance GDPR and other targets.

Realising HR’s Digital Transformation Ambitions offers practical and cost-effective ways to digitally power up the HR function and move to modern HR technology, with a series of practical recommendations on how to automate and innovate.

“Our new resource has been designed to offer useful best practice insight, as well as offering practical examples and on how to digitise HR processes effectively,” promises Andy Boulton, the newly-appointed CEO of EASY SOFTWARE UK.

“The data shows that going fully digital in HR delivers substantial benefits and savings, as we have witnessed in many of our customer implementations.

“Even better, those benefits and savings can be enjoyed by any organisation.”

The one-day event for APA professionals, scheduled for the 15th October at The Birmingham Conference & Events Centre, features a series of keynote speakers followed by workshops from industry leading advisors covering key AP sector topics such as GDPR/Data Security, reporting on payment practices, the future of Procure To Pay (P2P), LEAN processes and more.

EASY’s plans for the show include a stand presence (Stand K) to help AP practitioners explore the potential of streamlining AP through Document Management processes.

That means an opportunity to hear from the EASY team about how firms are saving business time and money while maintaining accuracy, security and cementing friction-free supplier relationships, as well as reducing the burden of their compliance work, too.

EASY has also just published a special whitepaper, Streamlining Accounts Payable on these topics, featuring research and insights from The Accounts Payable Association, the association for information management professionals AIIM and EASY SOFTWARE on how to go about digitising the AP function, copies of which will be available on the stand.

“We are delighted to be exhibiting at Birmingham, as we recognise the conference has a wide reach in the financial services customer experience community,” confirmed Sales and Marketing Director at EASY SOFTWARE UK, Howard Frear.

“Our participation at The Accounts Payable Association’s Annual Conference & Expo event will give us space to meet and speak with AP practitioners and highlight best practice though use cases from our own top brand customers, as well as for us to be available to offer really practical advice to the community.”

To secure your own place at The Accounts Payable Association’s Annual Conference & Expo event and catch up with EASY, go here.

Bury St Edmunds, UK: September 27, 2018 – EASY SOFTWARE UK, Europe’s foremost supplier of Document Management (DM) solutions, is delighted to announce the availability of a special new whitepaper on achieving best practice in Accounts Payable (AP).

In Streamlining Accounts Payable, practical and cost-effective ways to move off today’s still often manual AP processes with modern technology are laid out, with a series of practical recommendations for Finance, Accounts Payable and P2P (Procure-To-Pay) practitioners to automate and innovate.

“This research offers invaluable best practice insight and usefully summarises current research about DM in Accounts Payable, as well as offering great insight into how to digitise AP process effectively,” promises Howard Frear, Sales and Marketing Director at EASY SOFTWARE UK.

“Going fully Accounts Payable digital can deliver substantial benefits and savings, as we have witnessed in many of our customer implementations.

“And even better, those benefits and savings can be enjoyed by any organisation.”

In a recent dialogue with thedmcollaborators, AIIM’s SVP EMEA, Atle Skjekkeland, discussed what he sees as as the three biggest problems facing brands today.

For one, according to Atle, Invoice Processing still isn’t adequately automated, with AIIM global membership research showing only one organisation in three has made the process seamless and digital. He also points out that HR needs to finally digitise all its processes. Finally, Atle highlights another problem area — contract management, revealing that two thirds of companies his organisation had recently surveyed admitted they still manage that process with paper or some level of manual input.

These are all areas companies need to address in order to remain competitive, he concludes. He also confirmed they are also excellent opportunities for the Document Management vendors to step in and help.

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Document management sector leader gets on shortlist for twelfth year in a row at the upcoming DM Awards – the premier annual event for the UK content management community

Bury St Edmunds UK, September 5, 2018 – EASY SOFTWARE UK, Europe’s leading supplier of document management solutions, has today announced that it has once again been shortlisted in the annual Document Manager Awards.

The firm, which has won 15 DM Awards during the event’s twelve-year history, is shortlisted in three categories this year:

The DM Awards are given based on outstanding contributions to the document management industry, with the event acknowledged to be a must-attend date on the calendar for the UK document and content management sector.

The DM Awards span a range of product and project categories, with winners selected via a combination of online voting and the opinions of an expert judging panel, with the final award ceremony and winner presentations for 2018 taking place on November 22 at Radisson Blu Edwardian Bloomsbury Street in London’s Bloomsbury.

EASY’s crammed awards cabinet includes previous DM Award category wins such as ‘Email Product of the Year’ (three times), ‘Channel Partner of The Year’, ‘Enterprise CMS Product’, ‘Workflow/BPM Product of the Year’, ‘Compliance Product of the Year’, Invoicing Product of The Year’ and ‘Marketing Team of the Year’.

Howard Frear, Director of Sales and Marketing at EASY, commented: “We’re thrilled to be in the running for a DM Award for the twelfth year running, and we’d like to thank everyone in advance who will take the time to vote for us – and, of course, everyone who uses our solutions.”

Voting for 2018 is now open but, be advised, closes on October 31. You can vote for EASY here

In a recent opinion piece a well-known accessibility champion and software entrepreneur Jeff Mills explained why we can never afford to be complacent about digital openness. As technology improves, accessibility is always forced to play catch-up: it’s a perpetually moving target, which means brands need to keep testing their websites for full accessibility. A problem here: a real lack of investment in proper accessibility testing – the ‘I’ve run this software against it, it looks pretty accessible to me’ approach tends to win out versus doing the hard work (organising proper group testing with screen readers, for instance).

Jeff also argues that the work on the content side needs to happen as well, with document formats especially, concluding that brands still need to spend enough to make their services truly universal and address the whole market.

In a recent blog, data protection expert and lawyer Ralph T O’Brien discussed the recently-passed General Data Protection Act. His main point: if you are involved in the information and content business there’s a lot going on in the new DPA (Data Protection Act), which is how GDPR got passed into British law, that you need to know about. Mr O’Brien outlines why we needed a new DPA (the first one was passed in 1998) and the important fact that the UK didn’t just ‘copy-paste’ the EU’s legislation, but made significant local changes, and that there are lots of things that got added that are the subject of controversy (para 185). As well as detailing these important aspects of GDPR, Ralph warns that you not only need to deliver GDPR and align with this new Data Protection Act, but you need to start preparing for even more EU data privacy legislation in 2019.

Bury St Edmunds, UK, July 4, 2018 – EASY SOFTWARE UK, Europe’s foremost supplier of document management solutions, is delighted to announce the appointment of enterprise solution sales specialist Sam Lawrence to its sales and support team as Business Development Manager.

Responsible for managing all aspects of account management from pre-sales and sales through to project delivery and the transition to support, Sam will be accountable for a number of EASY’s flagship accounts, with her appointment clearly an important addition to the growing UK sales and support team.

Sam has 15 years experience in business development in the knowledge and risk management technology space in a career that features senior business development appointments at Lakeview Computers, Select Technology, SHE Software and Cardinus Risk.

In parallel with this appointment of Sam, the German-headquartered company has also appointed software solutions analyst Sean McLaughlan as an EASY software consultant.

Tasked with ensuring enterprise delivery and service targets are met and with scaling processes accordingly, Sean has over ten years of experience working in software solutions consultancy, working at tech services companies such as Digital Copier Systems, NetHelpDesk and MSX International. Sean is skilled in focusing on the management of relationships with all customers, particularly in all areas that impact the product implementation and services cycle.

For EASY SOFTWARE Sales & Marketing Director Howard Frear, these appointments signal another positive chapter in the company’s on-going success story. “We are excited with these two strong appointments to the EASY team, and we’re sure Sam will quickly help us grow EASY to support our pipeline, as her impressive business development track record, combined with her solid experience in the risk and knowledge management space, will be an extremely hard combination to beat.

“We are also really pleased to welcome Sean to the EASY UK family. Sean will work to support all aspects of the client relationship across our services and product solution, where he has impressive experience already.

“These are important appointments for EASY as we anticipate further growth in the areas of DM and contract management, digital finance and HR, as well as using DM to address regulatory requirements such as GDPR.”

In two recent blogs President of The International Association for Contract & Commercial Management (IACCM) Tim Cummins has discussed the membership organisation’s many insights into the challenges of contract management, against the background of what he fears is the wider societal erosion of trust in business.

Tim claims that the costs of poor contracting is a big issue, as IACCM research shows that, on average, businesses lose an average of 9.2% of value down to poor contract management approaches.

He also discusses the fact that there is little to no technology support for the management of those contracts, so the flows of data within the organisation important to the performance of a contract don’t exist. As a result, businesses are caught in a catch 22, he notes – if you don’t have a process to monitor the cost for lost revenue opportunity, then of course, you’ve not got the method of collecting the data to actually give you the evidence. In his companion piece, the IACCM leader then details the practical steps he sees as necessary to change the whole contract management issue for the better at last.